What’s Up THIS WEEK! Instagram + LinkedIn NEW Engagement Must Do’s! + Love Story on HULU | Ep. 465

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0:16Jay Schwedelson:We are back for what's up this week from the Do This Not That podcast. This is our short episode to break down what's going on this week in business and marketing and life. We still have other episodes later in the week, so let's jump into it. What is going on this week? Well, some new stuff out about LinkedIn engagement. There is a content format on LinkedIn that's crushing it that I think people are sleeping on. And this is some new data from Data Slayer. But I'm seeing this too. And everything that I'm posting, I'm seeing the exact same thing happening, which is the number one piece of content right now on LinkedIn is document posts.

0:54Jay Schwedelson:So those document posts are those carousels that you see that you can kind of swipe through that have like slides on them. And according to Data Slayer, and I'm going to tell you exactly how to do them because I don't think most people know how to do document posts because it's not that simple. When you post a document on LinkedIn, as opposed to just a text-based post or a post with just an image, when you post a document post, okay, according to Data Slayer, this new data that just came out, it has a 278 % more engagement than video posts on LinkedIn, 596 % more engagement than text only posts and over 300 % more engagement than single image posts.

1:32Jay Schwedelson:So I do this all the time. I'll post something like, you know, here are five new subject line tips and I'll do these slides that you could slide through. Now, when you, if you want to do it, people don't exactly know how to post a PDF because that's what you're really posting. You're posting a PDF that has a bunch of different pages on it, but you can't just go and post a PDF on LinkedIn unless you do this one thing. So you go to where it says start a post. You click on start a post and then the bottom you're going to see icons and then there's a plus sign next to those icons and then the second to last icon actually is it looks like a little piece of paper.

2:09Jay Schwedelson:It's something that says document and that is what you click on and you upload your PDF of your carousel there. That is the only way to post that PDF on LinkedIn. And when you do, it is crushing it in terms of performance. I'm seeing on everything that I'm doing as well. So I would be checking that out. What about the other platforms? Instagram, there's some new data this week from World Data Research, which is kind of interesting, which if you want to get more reach on the stories that you're putting on your company pages or your personal pages, or you want to get more reach from your reels that you are putting out there, okay, there's kind of one thingamabob that's doing really, really well.

2:48Jay Schwedelson:In the first hour of your story going live or your reel going live, okay, if you can get at least five people in that first hour to heart it, to like it, or to share it, to DM it to somebody, it actually will increase the circulation on those stories and on those reels by about 100 % if you can get five people. So what you really want to think about doing is having a group. I know this is a little cheesy, whatever, but get over it. Have a group of about 15 to 20 people that when you post, you could also DM it to them as well, but that they are going to be interacting with your stuff. You're interacting with their stuff, especially if you have a company.

3:34Jay Schwedelson:If you have a company that that has employees, you really wanna say to your team members, listen, make sure that you are starring our content when the company posts. And when the company posts, we really need you to like our story. We really need you to DM it to somebody else on the team. And if you can get just five people to do this every time your company posts on Instagram, it radically will change the amount of circulation that your posts are seeing. So yeah, it's not something that, you know, I'm proud to say that you should do, but hey, this is how the engagement is working right now. So you want to lean into that.

4:13Jay Schwedelson:What else is going on? I saw this from Burger King and I thought this was, I don't know, kind of wild and great. So Burger King, the president of Burger King, Tom Curtis, this week, starting right now, is inviting customers for a two-week period to contact him by phone, text, or voicemail because they launched this whole campaign to build the Whopper your way. And he is personally taking the calls for over four hours a day to interact with customers and hear them or whatever. And the reason I think this is great is that I think brands should do this, period. The more that leadership can be in contact for real with customers and prospects, the more they're gonna understand what people really want from them.

4:57Jay Schwedelson:And while it may seem outrageous for a company a Burger King size to do this, It also tells humanity that, hey, Burger King cares. So if you're a smaller brand, do this. I want to do this. This is awesome. I saw this stat about Walmart. This has nothing to do with anything that blew my mind. This came out this week. Do you realize what percentage of people do you think shop for groceries, okay, on a monthly basis at Walmart? What percentage? This just came out from data from Dunhumbi's Consumer Trends Tracker that U.S. consumers, okay, this past month, 72 % of U.S. consumers shopped for groceries at Walmart.

5:44Jay Schwedelson:That is wild. The one that came in second was Dollar General at 29 % and then Aldi at 28%. 72%. Wow. Wow. All right, let's get into ridiculous nonsense that's out there. So I saw this and I was like, what is going on? So Rose Byrne, Rose Byrne is an actress, okay? She just won the Golden Globe for If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You. And by the way, that's the worst movie that's ever been made. Like, it's not even close. But I'm not here to tell you not to watch If I Had Legs, I'd Kill You. But don't watch it because it was terrible. But Rose Byrne, so she won the Golden Globe. And now her significant other is this dude, Bobby Cannavale, who I always think I'm saying his name wrong, but whatever.

6:33Jay Schwedelson:He's a big actor too. He's been in a bunch of stuff, whatever. But I just read, do you know why he wasn't there when Rose Byrne was winning the Golden Globe? Because he was at a, I'm not making this up, a reptile expo in New Jersey where they sell weird reptiles that you could get as pets. and his kids wanted a bearded dragon of some kind. Him and Rose Byrne's kids wanted a bearded dragon. So he went to the Reptile Expo instead of being there when she won the Golden Globe. Now, does that mean you're a great parent because you're more focused on your kid getting a weird dragon? I don't know. I don't know what signal that says.

7:18I don't know how I feel about this. And more importantly, who wants a dragon? Who wants a beard? Who wants anything in their home?

7:24Jay Schwedelson:enough with stuff in their home i don't know the other thing i'm watching is love story which is a little sad it's the jfk jr and carolyn beset show it's like this sort of drama based on real stuff about jfk's junior relationship with carolyn beset before they passed away in that in that plane crash it's sad because they passed away but i will say it is super well done uh it's it's a great watch. It's on Hulu. I just feel bad. I feel bad. I'm recommending it because it's really good and it's, and it's, I'm not fully caught up yet, but I do feel sad about the whole thing. That whole thing really bums me out.

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